Whatever's for Us
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| Studio album by Joan Armatrading | ||||
| Released | November 1972 | |||
| Recorded | Château d'Hérouville, France, Trident Studios and Marquee Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Pop | |||
| Length | 38:27 | |||
| Label | A&M | |||
| Producer | Gus Dudgeon | |||
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Whatever's for Us is the debut album of British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. The album was a collaboration between Armatrading and singer-songwriter Pam Nestor. At the time the two were musical partners and wrote over a hundred songs together. Joan Armatrading sings lead vocals and plays piano and acoustic guitar, while Pam Nestor co-wrote most of the songs.
Whatever's For Us was produced by Gus Dudgeon and was recorded over two weeks at Château d'Hérouville studios (then called Strawberry Studios), in the Oise valley, near Paris, and then at Trident Studios London and Marquee Studios, also in London. It was originally released in November 1972 by Cube Records (HIFLY 12). Cube originally intended to call the album Joan Armatrading, but Pam Nestor fought against this, as she had worked on over 100 songs for the album over a period of two to three years, playing piano and singing on many of them, and at the time of the album's recording, the two writers considered themselves a duo. Armatrading later said: "Pam and I worked very hard on the music and the songs for this album". In the event, none of the songs featuring Pam Nestor playing or singing were chosen for the album, as Cube wanted to promote Joan Armatrading as a solo artist.
Davey Johnstone, Gerry Conway and Ray Cooper, who performed on the album, were also working at the time with Cat Stevens and Elton John, both of whom also recorded at the Château d'Hérouville studios.
The album was re-released by A&M in 1974 when Armatrading signed for the label, and was then released as a CD in 1988 by Castle Communications, and released again in CD format in 2001, (the Metro re-master) with two bonus tracks: Lonely Lady and Together In Words And Music, both written by Armatrading and Nestor and produced by Gus Dudgeon. The two songs were released as a single in June 1973 (BUG31).
The album was most recently re-released by EMI on 2 October 2001 and 27 April 2004 under the title Joan Armatrading: Singer Songwriter.
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